WHO INVENTED THE TYPEWRITER?
The first really practical typeAvriter was. that made in 1868 by an American printer named! Charles Lathan Sholes. He Avorked at it for some four or fn r e years, and Avas then able to interest in his invention the gunmaking firm of Remington and Sons of New York. As a result the Remington machine was marketed in 1874. It had many of the characteristic features of our present-day type' writers. The typewrite:* doubtless owes something to the type printing telegraph of Wheatstene and Cooke, and to a machine lor embossing letters on paper for the blind, invented in the middle of last century.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 57, 25 May 1942, Page 2
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108WHO INVENTED THE TYPEWRITER? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 57, 25 May 1942, Page 2
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